Black President Review

A ‘Black President’ is
a CEO of a company that only focuses on money: as in the sense of treating the
employees as tools to get money - that is Mitamura Yukio (Sawamura Ikki).

The CEO of a
well-known textile company, Mitamura Yukio doesn’t really have much of a social
life, yet he is a very well-off and talented business man. And yet he decides
to apply for a business major at a University, and surprisingly he gets
accepted. As the oldest student, and older than some professors, he doesn’t
really fit in, but that doesn’t hold him back. He tries to befriend the
assistant professor Akiyama Kyoko (Kuroki Meisa) who not only is thrown off by
his age, but also by mean personality.

Shortly enough he
decides to join the film club duo to unknown interest, and even though the
group doesn’t like him they reluctantly have to let him join.

Soon his ‘black
business’ ways start to emerge and
change the students and the lives around him, which leads to Akiyama deciding
to go against him: expose him to the world as the Black President he is…

Okay, so this drama is
basically about business AND involving students? I don’t know what and why they
thought it would be a good idea? I mean it’s not badly acted, just very boring.
Too many uninteresting situations, and it’s really not funny. I thought it
would be funny! The lead is not just an anti-hero he’s also very unlikeable,
and has absolutely no growth (character growth). It is one of those dramas you
need an open mind and a diverse interest pool, which I apparently don’t have. The
younger cast was pretty good, except one of the leads, but the most interesting
is Meisa (and I am no fan of hers).

All in all - I wouldn’t
recommend it, but a lot of different people liked it, so something has to be
okay about it…